nstagram 6.0 Seduces Pro Photographers With Adjustable Filters And 9 New Effects

Until now, the Instagram user base was divided. There were casual mobile photographers who snapped pics with their default camera or Instagram and then posted them to the app. And then there were more serious creators who might fiddle with their photos on desktop software like Lightroom or spin them through a series of third-party editing apps before taking advantage of the Instagram network. This gave their photos a truly unique look unattainable through Instagram’s more cookie-cutter, overplayed filters.

Instagram is taking these apps head-on with these new features in its free app.

• Filter Strength: Tap on a filter to adjust the filter strength. (Border is now within Filter Strength; tap on a filter to add a border)
• Adjust: crop and straighten your photo at the same time
• Brightness: makes your photo brighter or darker
• Contrast: makes the bright areas of your photo brighter, and the dark areas darker
• Warmth: shifts the colors of your photo towards either warmer orange tones or cooler blue tones
• Saturation: increases or decreases the color intensity of the image (e.g. red becomes redder)
• Highlights: adjust the brightness focusing on the bright areas of the image
• Shadows: adjust the brightness focusing on the dark areas of the image
• Vignette: darkens the edges of the photo and directs the attention away from the edges towards the center of the photo
• Sharpen: adds a subtle crispness to your photo and makes photo clearer

These features are conjured with the new wrench buttoned and applied with sliders featuring plus and minus counts for maximum control. Instagram users can tap their photo preview to compare it before and after effects. You can see this process in action in the video below, provided by Instagram: